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Location: 24 George’s Quay, Ballintemple, Cork, T12 RY11

Venue Type:  Traditional Irish Pub / Boozer

Year of Inscription: 2025

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EBG Rating:	8.7/10
Choice/ Quality of Drinks	❤️❤️❤️❤️ A purposefully no-nonsense tap range with some surprise Belgian bottles and Irish craft appearing behind the bar. They don’t serve Guinness, only Cork stout.
Style/ Décor	❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ A compact little boozer with an unreconstructed exterior and interior, typical of old Irish boozers. The signage will be familiar to those who lived through the 1960s, though the building itself was built in 1760.You’ll find a snug to the right of the entrance, and a narrow pub fitted in wood-panelling painted cream and red gloss. Curtains shield the view from the outside, giving it a nice clandestine feel inside.
Atmosphere/ Character	❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ A late bar, its sole purpose, and a fine purpose it is too – is to turn up for a drink and a chat. No TV or loud music, but the atmosphere in the pub more than makes up for that, a pub with the knack of feeling like you’re part of a special occasion even when it’s just another night, which is one of the better compliments you can pay a pub.
Amenities/ Events	❤️❤️❤️ Snug, snacks, occasional live music.
Value For Money	❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Atypical pricing, with Beamish sold for at least a Euro less than many pubs in the nearby vicinity. There are a few other holdouts elsewhere in the city that maintain this abnormally low pricing, but this is one of the few that are genuinely great pubs too.
Description	Callanan’s opening hours are an obstacle course and have disappointed a fair few people who failed to do their research in advance. Therefore you have been warned. A late bar, their sole purpose (and a fine purpose it is too) is to provide space to turn up for a drink and a chat. No TV or loud music, but the atmosphere in the pub more than makes up for that. A compact little boozer with an unreconstructed exterior and interior, typical of old Irish boozers. The signage will be familiar to those who lived through the 1960s, though the building itself was built in 1760. You’ll find a snug to the right of the entrance, and a narrow pub fitted in wood-panelling painted cream and red gloss. Curtains shield the view from the outside, giving it a nice clandestine feel inside. The atmosphere has the odd knack of feeling like its a special occasion even when it’s just another night, which is one of the better compliments you can pay a pub. Reputedly owned by the same family since 1935, there’s a sense of continuity as you sit (or stand) among a crowd spanning the generations. Known for its uncanny pricing too, with Beamish weighing in at a fraction of the cost of most pubs only 5 minutes walk away. They aren’t shy of shouting about it either, and fair play to them. A sensitive renovation project is ongoing to help Callanan’s persevere into the future.  Across Ireland you’ll see many pubs with similar frontage to this which are nearly gone or long gone, but this place provides a blueprint for how to carry the best of the old into the modern day. (Added February 2025)